| Never met you but as a trumpeter in high school during the tonight show days we held you up as the "man". Rumors flew in those days that you could hit a high C with the trumpet hanging on a string. We could not imagine how someone could do that but it added to the mystique. I'm very glad you have had a long career and been able to play the whole time, what a wonderful life! Keep playing and inspiring! Thanks! You will never know how many youngsters you had a positive influence on,God bless you!
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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960
"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love
"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee |